[PATCH] ixgb: support ETHTOOL_GPERMADDR

Add support for ETHTOOL_GPERMADDR to ixgb.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c b/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c
index 5c555373adbe..5015eaf4e20a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ixgb/ixgb_main.c
@@ -460,8 +460,9 @@ ixgb_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
         }
 
         ixgb_get_ee_mac_addr(&adapter->hw, netdev->dev_addr);
+        memcpy(netdev->perm_addr, netdev->dev_addr, netdev->addr_len);
 
-        if(!is_valid_ether_addr(netdev->dev_addr)) {
+        if(!is_valid_ether_addr(netdev->perm_addr)) {
                 err = -EIO;
                 goto err_eeprom;
         }